Thanks to Hal Daumé III and Graeme Hirst, who have finished their service on the NAACL executive board, and to the nominating committee, chaired by Katrin Erk. Thanks also to everyone who voted in this year’s NAACL Board elections.

The goal of the NAACL Emerging Regions fund is to assist the creation of a larger and more cohesive Computational Linguistics community in Latin America, and to enhance more regional interactions among students and researchers anywhere in the Americas. The deadline for proposals is 30 April 2017 (midnight PST) for events to take place between June 2017 and June 2018.

The constitutional amendment to add a fifth member to the board has passed and will take effect for the next NAACL election cycle.

Thanks to Matt Post and Fei Xia, who have finished their service on the NAACL executive board, and to the nominating committee, chaired by Mona Diab. Thanks also to everyone who voted in this year’s NAACL Board elections.